PRESS RELEASE: Swedish Police Shuts Down Pirate Bay - Again — Inskrivet av Nyhetsgruppen 6 juli, 2007 — This Friday, it became known that the Swedish Police Board will shut down The Pirate Bay, the popular file sharing site, by classifying it as a child pornography site in the blocklist that Swedish Internet Providers respect.

Swedish Police will CENSOR The Pirate Bay July 6 — Working online gives you a lot of friends. Some of those gives you heads up when something big is going on, and sometimes really big things happen. — A couple of hours ago I got one of those - The Swedish Police is going to put The Pirate Bay in it's child porn filter!

Pownce Invites For Sale On eBay — Proving that everything has a market, invites to Kevin Rose's P2P service Pownce are up for sale on eBay. — Bidding on Pownce invites start at 1c with buy it now prices at $5. — It wasn't that long ago when Gmail invites were available for sale on eBay …

POWNCE INVITES FOR SALE — I don't know if this is wrong or just weird. A few people have put Pownce invites up on eBay (buy-it-now price is $9.95). Let me remind everyone: it's a free service. And it's in alpha testing. Just wait for it to evolve a bit and open up to more people.

Dave Winer's TwitterGram — Dave Winer likes to throw web services and his own software in a blender and see what comes out, and his new TwitterGram project is a perfect example. In this case, he's married the Twitter API to his own service that allows people to upload short audio messages to their Twitter accounts.

TWITTERGRAMS: TALKING TWEETS — Dave Winer has released a cool experiment into the world: Twittergram. It's a voice version of Twitter (more coverage): You record a brief audio clip (200K max), and Twittergram puts it on a server and creates a Twitter post (a "tweet") that links to it.

2008: Year of the Linux Desktop — When Evans Data released its survey on Tuesday showing a sharp shift toward Linux (and away from Windows) among developers in North America, the Linux world went wild. Wistful pengiun heads heralded the coming Open Source Age.

Video Ads: Every Startup Has A Different Solution — It may seem weird, but I've been eagerly awaiting the day when I see ads in my viral video. eMarketer expects online video advertising to nearly double in 2008 to $1.3 billion, but no one's really nailed a scalable ad platform for video.

My iPhone Test Drive — Ok, so shame on me for writing so much about the iPhone without actually having used it, but I fixed that today by spending a couple of hours in an Apple store playing with the iPhone. Granted this is much more limited than the experience of long-term use …

Why is Seth Godin not talking about the Squidoo problem? — A blogger asks why Seth isn't talking about Squidoo's massive SEO and porn problems. They also speculate that I might be attacking Squidoo because they are competition for Mahalo. — For the record, everyone knows I attacking anything …

Online Music: 90+ Essential Music and Audio Websites — Online music has always been popular, and now social networks, peer recommendations and personalized radio stations are helping fans find bands faster than ever before. Here are more than 90 sites for musicians, fans, and everyone who enjoys music.

AMD invests $7.5 million in Transmeta — Advanced Micro Devices announced Friday a $7.5 million investment in chip designer Transmeta, strengthening the bond between the two chip companies. — As part of the investment, AMD will receive preferred shares of Transmeta.

Microsoft's Xbox 360 move: What took so long? — The Xbox 360's "red ring of death" hardware failures were hardly news to video gamers. So the natural question to ask, following yesterday's news, is why Microsoft waited so long to acknowledge and address the problem.

2018 Top 100 Global Tech Leaders — 21st century technology-sector leadership requires more than financial success. It also requires a commitment to compliance, innovation, and much more. Who are today's leaders?